How to Run a Clean Election

What Mexico can teach the United States.

By

John Fund

Updated July 10, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET

Mexico is likely to weather the controversy over its photo-finish election despite the protestors that losing candidate Andr&eacute;s Manuel L&oacute;pez Obrador brought into the streets on Saturday to claim the election had been stolen. Mexico's nonpartisan National Election Commission has built up a decade of credibility in running clean elections and international observers have certified the count as fair. Indeed, in its successful efforts to overcome its old reputation for corrupt vote-counting Mexico has a lot to...